RE: [Xen-users] Xen.org Blog Available

["Stephen Spector" <stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James:

Thanks for your comments on the Xen.org blog. I believe the mailing
lists do a great job of supporting the community for discussions of
problems they are having developing or using the Xen Hypervisor. The
mailing lists are the perfect place for these discussions and I recently
launched a new search tool (http://xen.markmail.org) that let the
community search into the large mailing list archives. 

I think the Blog is a great way for the Xen community to discuss the
project on a larger scale which would not be appropriate for the mailing
lists. Examples of blog postings would be: New Features with
descriptions, Status on features under development, Xen Community
activities, and other topics that would be beyond the way that mailing
lists are used. Mark's feedback is very good to your question as well
and I want to give community members such as Mark an opportunity to
reach out to a wider audience via the blog.

Thanks.

...spector


-----Original Message-----
From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:24 PM
To: Stephen Spector; xen-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen.org Blog Available

> Xen.org Community:
> 
> To further community interaction beyond our existing mailing lists, I
have
> launched a new Xen.org Blog site at http://67.207.140.65/ (soon to be
> http://blog.xen.org <http://blog.xen.org/> ). The blog site is open to
any
> community member wishing to discuss any Xen related concept or issue.
> Please keep all blog posts about the Xen hypervisor and related
technology
> and remember this is not a marketing or sales tool to promote your Xen
> solution. I look forward to reading the variety of topics posted on
Xen.

My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place
do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers
need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many
advantages over web sites for holding discussions.

Maybe I'm the only one with this opinion... if so I'll speak no further
:)

Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and
when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on
the mailing list?

James


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